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Howard Gayle: I felt I was back at square one
Sunderland's Howard Gayle (left) and Chelsea's Nigel Spackman during the early stages of the Division One game at Stamford Bridge in 1984

IN MUNICH tomorrow night, two five-time European Cup winners will play for a place in the last eight of the Champions League. 

They last met in the competition in a dramatic semi-final 38 years ago. The Liverpool squad now contains several black footballers but at the start of that 1980-81 season no black man had ever represented the club. 

In 1987, John Barnes became the first black player signed by Liverpool from another club, but a decade earlier they had produced one of their own.

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